Mir of Hunza
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The Mir of Hunza was the title of the rulers of the Hunza Valley
in the Northern Areas
, Pakistan
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The Mir used to have the Burushaski title of Tham, later changed to Mir. In 1974 the state became a part of the Northern Areas of Pakistan under the Pakistani Federal Government. The last Mir of Hunza was Mir Muhammad Jamal Khan
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Hunza Valley
The Hunza Valley is a mountainous valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. The Hunza valley is situated to the north of the Hunza River, at an elevation of around . The territory of Hunza is about...
in the Northern Areas
Northern Areas
Gilgit-Baltistan , is the northernmost political entity within Pakistan. It borders Pakistan's Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province to the west, Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor to the north, China to the east and northeast, Azad Kashmir to the southwest, and Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir to the...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
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The Mir used to have the Burushaski title of Tham, later changed to Mir. In 1974 the state became a part of the Northern Areas of Pakistan under the Pakistani Federal Government. The last Mir of Hunza was Mir Muhammad Jamal Khan
Mir Muhammad Jamal Khan
Mir Muhammad Jamal Khan was the last Mir of the former princely state of Hunza. He married Maimona Pari - a princess of the former state of Nagar in 1934 and took the throne after the death of his father, Mir Ghazanfar Khan in April, 1945...
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External links
- The Changing Northern Areas
- Pakistan's Northern Areas dilemma
- Northern Areas Development Gateway
- Pakistan's Northern Areas
- Northern Pakistan's Karakoram & Hindukush Mountains
- The Mountain Areas Conservancy Project
- Not ‘Mir of Hunza’ An anti-Mir letter to the editor: one man's opinion, and of undetermined significance.
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